SAVED BY CHILD’S CRIES.
- ESCAPE FROM BURNING HOTEL.
An liisloric hotel at Brielle, New Jersey, which for several weeks was the home of Robert Louis Stevenson, was destroyed by fire at three o’clock In the morning recently. The origin of the fire, which caused a loss uf approximately £20,000 could not be learned.
Persons asleep in the hotel were saved by the crying of a baby, over whose crib the flames bad passed probably through the wall. Awakened by. the ciies of the child, the parents discovered the fire, and they had just time to pick up the baby, shout a warning to the other inmates, and without dressing run into the street.
The Union House was built more than a century ago, and was one of the first buildings on the New Jersey coast.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1231, 9 April 1914, Page 4
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135SAVED BY CHILD’S CRIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1231, 9 April 1914, Page 4
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